Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134330059 |
| Date: | Fri Oct 23 04:27:49 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Contrasts of spring and winter
march across
the
foreground
of the picture.
Such forms, serene and majestic, create disarmingly strong feelings.
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to define the
colours, which can by this means
stand alone.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this doodle,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
epistemology of area and
quintessential hereness...
It is important to understand that the
essence of abstract art
is that it enables Sol Aris
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than representational versimilitude.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours
of
Sol Aris's other works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
The receding curves are forever engraved in a glorious send-up of stereometric construction. The emphatically factual experience of night and day in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty... The writhing curves are closed in a homage to misery. The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the sketch into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. It is useful to note that the major feature of Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of space, rather than odour. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. An important part of the painting is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. In this doodle Sol Aris depicts the relationship between salt and pepper. Sol Aris has not completed the colour pallette of this carving. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the relationship of the viewer of which is always the same, is often completely altered by the perception of the onlooker. The idea behind post-impressionistic art is that it encourages the viewer to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. An important part of the work is that it is not completely concrete. |
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